Stuttgart man robbed, beaten with hammer

The Stuttgart Police Department is investigating an alleged aggravated robbery that left a man in Baptist Health Medical Center-Stuttgart’s emergency room after being hit three times in the head with a hammer.

The Stuttgart Police Department is investigating an alleged aggravated robbery that left a man in Baptist Health Medical Center-Stuttgart’s emergency room after being hit three times in the head with a hammer.

According to the SPD incident report that was released Tuesday, Ptl. Jeffery Bokker responded to the hospital at 8:53 p.m. Monday. The 69-year-old Stuttgart man said an unknown black female knocked on his door, in the 1300 block of South College, around 7:15 p.m. asking to use his phone.

“The unknown suspect made multiple calls from his phone,” Bokker wrote in his report. The woman had told the man her vehicle ran out of gas.

The man told officers that he asked the woman to hang up the phone because he was leaving.

“The suspect then became mad and started cursing him and grabbed a pair of scissors. During the course of the struggle (the victim) went for a claw hammer that was located in a open drawer underneath the kitchen sink,” Bokker said.

The woman was able to get control of the hammer and struck the man three times in the back of the head, rendering him unconscious. The man claims the woman stole his black Nokia cell phone, his wallet, which contained $40 in cash, and $12 from his front pants pocket while he was unconscious.

According to the man the phone was estimated to cost $100.

Possible charges in the case could include aggravated robbery and first-degree battery, both felony charges.